Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more.

• 5 to 8pm: Art On the Spot with YAYA
• 5:30 to 8:30pm: Music: Calvin Johnson, Jr.
• 7:30 pm: Film: Klimt

About Calvin Johnson, Jr.

Calvin A. Johnson Jr (born November 21, 1985) is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and actor born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. A third-generation musician, Calvin has played the saxophone since age 7, and has studied under Edward “Kidd” Jordan, as well as Clyde Kerr Jr. and Kent Jordan at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Calvin graduated from NOCCA in 2003 and went on to receive an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of New Orleans. He has toured with Harry Connick Jr., Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, and Glen David Andrews, among others, and has appeared on many recordings, including releases from Mystikal, Cedric Burnside, and New Orleans’ own Corey Henry. Calvin shifted focus in 2015 to his own projects, and presently is the leader of two bands —  Chapter:SOUL, a funk and soul band currently on tour throughout the U.S. and in the process of recording its debut album, and Native Son, a traditional and contemporary jazz group

About Klimt

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Starring John Malcovich. (97 minutes, 2006)